The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases, Etc., Etc., of Dogs, and an Account of the Different Kinds of Game, with Their Habits. Also Hints to Shooters, with Various Useful Recipes, Etc., EtcLea & Blanchard, 1845 - 223 páginas |
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... cause , which were difficult to re- move , and some of them ultimating in mange . Food and Lodging . - These contribute , largely to future health and usefulness . Vegetable food should prepon- derate until an age is acquired when the ...
... cause , which were difficult to re- move , and some of them ultimating in mange . Food and Lodging . - These contribute , largely to future health and usefulness . Vegetable food should prepon- derate until an age is acquired when the ...
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... causes must have an effect on game as well as other animals , would respectfully request some of your many capable and intelligent northern and southern cor- respondents to favour us with their observations on this subject . " The ...
... causes must have an effect on game as well as other animals , would respectfully request some of your many capable and intelligent northern and southern cor- respondents to favour us with their observations on this subject . " The ...
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... cause of this strange manœuvre , he found they were decoyed by a red fox playing on the shore . An active , sprightly dog is generally selected for this service . They are taught from their infancy to run after small pebbles , and when ...
... cause of this strange manœuvre , he found they were decoyed by a red fox playing on the shore . An active , sprightly dog is generally selected for this service . They are taught from their infancy to run after small pebbles , and when ...
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... cause . The truth never reached them that these perse- cuted little creatures had been granted the power of withholding odour to preserve them from their ruthless destroyers . Noble dogs have been censured as wanting or careless , when ...
... cause . The truth never reached them that these perse- cuted little creatures had been granted the power of withholding odour to preserve them from their ruthless destroyers . Noble dogs have been censured as wanting or careless , when ...
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... cause of my becoming a keen sportsman . Why so few of the birds were roused puzzled me exceedingly , and I , in common with every one , censured the dogs . Immediately adja- cent to this stubble , was a body of open woodland , in which ...
... cause of my becoming a keen sportsman . Why so few of the birds were roused puzzled me exceedingly , and I , in common with every one , censured the dogs . Immediately adja- cent to this stubble , was a body of open woodland , in which ...
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The Dog and the Sportsman - Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases ... John Stuart Skinner,John George Wood Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases ... John Stuart Skinner,Frederick Thomas Hodgson Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 43 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 39 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While man, vain insect!